Software Engineer

The Role

Pilot is a successful startup hiring a senior engineer on our Infrastructure team.   All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software, services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience, profitably, at scale. The Infrastructure team accelerates the rest of R&D by providing scalable, efficient, and high-quality building blocks for product development, while also ensuring we can support business growth in a secure and reliable way. The team is responsible for building simple, scalable abstractions and owns the full Infrastructure stack from the AWS infra that our systems run on to the product platform that our product engineers use.    Pilot’s aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams — superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business, the machinery to constantly improve it, and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this, by delivering these capabilities through powerful software.    Pilot’s backend is written in fully typed modern Python, and our frontend is JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. We use Terraform to manage our production infrastructure, and deploy Docker containers to ECS. AWS CodeDeploy powers our deployments and we rely on Honeycomb for our monitoring and Postgres as our database.   We're looking for senior infra engineers who are generalists comfortable working across the full infrastructure stack, with a product platform bent and full stack familiarity.

K****ey Responsibilities 

• Building, testing and deploying software in a continuous manner (we deploy daily or more often).
• Creating and contributing to technical specs and testing/rollout plans.
• Working with internal customers and stakeholders to ensure we’re solving the right problems.
• Mentoring and sponsoring your teammates to help them grow.
• Working across teams to shape the future of engineering at Pilot.
• Supporting your software and services as required.

About you

Even if you don’t have experience with the specific technologies in our stack, we’d love to talk to you! Our requirements are:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience with Python in production
• Experience with common infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, AWS
• Familiarity with the frontend ecosystem and frontend infrastructure tools
• Able to work collaboratively across functions
• Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills